display errors / error reporting on LOCAL TEST-ENVIRONMENT

Rehne
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10 years 9 months ago #38550 by Rehne

display errors / error reporting on LOCAL TEST-ENVIRONMENT was created by Rehne

HI,
A Question:
within FLEXIcontent following code is used (in flexicontent.php for frontend, defineconstants.php and admin.flexicontent.php).

$lhlist = array('localhost', '127.0.0.1');
if( in_array($_SERVER, $lhlist) ) {
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_STRICT);
ini_set('display_errors',1);
}

this causes locally always an error output (error reporting)
it would be better!? to use the following instead of.

Code:

// System configuration.
$config = new JConfig();

// Set the error_reporting
switch ($config->error_reporting)
{
	case 'default':
	case '-1':		error_reporting($config->error_reporting);
		break;
	case 'none':
	case '0':
		error_reporting(0);
		break;
	case 'simple':
		error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE);
		ini_set('display_errors',1);
		break;
	case 'maximum':
		error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_STRICT);
		ini_set('display_errors',1);
		break;
	case 'development':
		error_reporting(-1);
		ini_set('display_errors',1);
		break;
	default:		error_reporting($config->error_reporting);
		ini_set('display_errors', 1);
		break;
}

then it would be possible to test locally without error output (error reporting) depending on the joomla settings for the error reporting??? because you can adjust it yourself

Regards

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ggppdk
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10 years 8 months ago #38551 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic display errors / error reporting on LOCAL TEST-ENVIRONMENT

Hello,

thanks for suggestion, will commit this

Just this code:

Code:

case 'default':
case '-1':
   error_reporting($config->error_reporting);
   break;

is not appropriate,
since it supposed to allow "System default", by not setting anything but it does not ...

instead it will
1. SET some all flags of the error_reporting nn-bit integer (=Maximum)
when value is -1 (even E_ALL does not include all FLAG bits)

2. and SET none flags
when value is 'default' (typecasted to integer it will yield ZERO) so it will turn everything OFF instead of allowing system default

this is better:

Code:

case 'default':
case '-1':
   break;

-- J2.5+ has exactly the above code too ...

all others you suggest are good !!
e.g.
the 'text' value of $config->error_reporting have a meaning are interpreted "accordingly" by the above switch will all other values that fall in the case of
** default:
are supposed to have an integer value

-- This is different for FLEXIcontent compared to Joomla:
in maximum you suggest not adding E_STRICT which is right, once we have all PHP strict warnings removed we can remove that too

again thanks for suggestion and code contribution !!

it has crossed our mind to do it but, never got around to look into it, you saved us time with it !!

-- some 3rd party extension may disable error reporting regardless of Joomla settings

and is nice to make sure that error_reporting is running when needed

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